Presentation by Dr. Porchia Moore January 27, 2026 As a global polycrisis continues to impact modern day life, perhaps no other institution is experiencing the impact of rapid change more than the American museum. In this talk, Dr. Moore will identify and name the...
Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium and Portugal visited on a recent sabbatical, museum director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums’ changing shapes...
Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor Presentation by Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive work has been conducted for decades. Like other...
Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur, Oklahoma in 2010, several shifts happened simultaneously:...
On April 4, MSP welcomed Fulbright Scholar Professor Alan Rice (DAAS, UMICH) who discussed a range of his work as curator, academic and activist in Lancashire, Great Britain. As a scholar of the Black Atlantic he has curated and co-curated exhibitions with Black British artists...
On March 19, MSP welcomed Seb Chan, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne, Australia and the Museum Studies Program’s 2025 Visiting Scholar. Seb’s presentation, Museums, Technologies, and Civic Transformations, explored trust, attention, digital memory, ephemerality, and...
